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HOW VILLA ELUDED
THE AMERICAN TROOPS
The first account of how the "Mexi
can eel" escaped from the pursuing
American forces, and was finally shot
from the back by one of his own
men, came to the New York World
from its correspondent at the Per
shing headquarters. From time to
time the public has been regaled with
reports of Villa's death, and some of
the Southern neighbors even went bo
far as to declare that they had seen
the actual grave of the leader. But
this apparently vcrarious account
proves that he still lived many days
after his grave was "seen."
Together with this comes another
which tells how a recent raid wa
made on a rich mining property at
Batopik'.s, and how the estate was
looted by the followers of Baltran,
a lieutenant of the bandit. And it is
noteworthy that tho Carranza's
troops were in the vicinity, they made
no attempt to interfere with the raid
ers, or to disperse them. Moreover,
we are told that the Carranza garri
son at Madera, which is just across
the mountain, liberated twelve men
who had murdered Americans at Co
lumbus, in spite of tho assurance to
the Americans that they woidc. i
turned over to ihe United States
troops. About Villa we learn:
The account of the manner in which
Villa was shot by one of the Mexicans
whom he forced into his band is pre
sented herewith. The statement was
made by an imprest Mexican whose
name is withheld to save him from
vengeance, which is wreaked on all
Mexicans who give the Americans in
formation of any sort. The state
ment tends to establish the fact that
Major Huwze's command was on the
bandit's heels for several days. Howzo
had to give up the chase because his
horses were exhausted.
"When Villa came through El Valle
after the Columbus raid," said the
informant, "he collected the people of
the town to hear him make a speech,
lie asked for volunteers to help light
the Americans, who, he said, were in
our country and would probably be
here that day. He then asked the
rest of us if we were not going to
join, and when we refused he stood
us up in line, dismissed the old men,
and took the rest as prisoners under
guard.
"When we reached Guerrero he
gave us arms and a small amount of
ammunition, so that we could take
part in the fight against the Carran
za forces who were there. We enter
ed Guerrero about four in the morn
ing and started fighting. The fight
lasted till nearly noon, when the Car
ranza forces gave way and the town
fell into our hands. During the pro
gress of the fight we were lined up
in an arroyo facing the Carranza
forces.
"General Villa and his personal
staff went forward toward the enemy
on foot, leaving us in the arroyo, and
when he became exposed he was shot
from behind by one of the men who
was with him as prisoner; in fact, it
was our intention to kill him and 30
over to the Carranzistas. But just
at the time when he was shot the
Carrr.nzistar; gave way and ran, leav
ing us with no possible way to es
cape, so we again assumed a pre
tense of lovalty and declared if he
had been shot by any cf us it was i
purely accidental. j
"He was shot with an old model j
Remington rifle, which takes a very
lavire lead bullet. The bullet enter-
i ed his right leg from behind, coming
i out through the shinbone directly in
; front and about four inches down.
, I account for the bullet ranging down
! by the fact that he was running for
! ward on foot and his leg must have
1 been up in a forward motion. The
: bullet made a big hole where it went
in and a much larger where it came
1 out. The shin-bone was badly shat
tered, and I afterward saw them pick
' out small pieces of bone from the hole
in front. I know very well about the
j wound, as I was appointed to drive
; the wagon in which he was carried
' away from Guerrero to the south. I
saw his wound every day.
"The day after the fight at Guer
! rero he prepared to leave for the
: south, as he had already learned that
; the Americans were at Namiquipa.
He left Beltran with the principal
j part of his army at Guerrero, and
i started in the direction of Parral,
; whither they said they were going.
! They took 150 men commanded by
Nicholas Hernandez, and they always
kept a guard of about fifty men close
ly around the wagon where Villa was
carried and which I was driving.
"The legs of his trousers and draw
ers were cut away nearly to the hip,
leaving the limb bare. After some
days the leg turned very black for
about twelve inches above and twelve
inches below the wound.
"I noticed after that that he entire
ly lost his courage and at times ap
peared to be unconscious. He would
cry like a child when the wagon jolted,
and curst me every time I hit a rock.
"After we passed San Antonio and
started south through the mountains,
he got so bad that he could not stand
the wagon any longer. They then
made him a litter. They detailed six
teen men to carry this in turn, but
did not trust it to any except his
staff officers and personal friends.
His brother-in-law rode close to him,
leading Villa's horse, a beautiful blue
roan pinto, with Villa's empty saddle,
and he seemed to have personal
charge of the patient. The brother-in-law
is a very strong, well-built
man, and he lifted Villa around in
his arms like a child.
"For some reason they had me
drive the wagon close behind them,
and they traveled almost day and
night. When they wanted to stop,
General Villa would not stand for it.
He was the worst- seared man I ever
saw. When I last saw him, his big
fat, robust face was very thin and
frail. His staff officers hunted every
thing dainty for him that they could
find to eat. He ate very little and
seemed to grow gradually weaker day
by day. The next day after .they
made the litter was a very bad day:
it was snowing hard and the ground
was very slippery.
"In going down a bad, steep hill I
lost control of the horses on acc-mit
of the condition of the roads, and the
wagon turned over and was broken so
badly that it was left behind. 1 was
No. 6S
This is a prescription prepared especially
(or MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver be'ter than
Culomel and does not gripe or siclsen. 2.Sc
also left behind working with my wa
gon and got into camp at a place
called Hacienda Ciengito. There
they had already executed a man who,
I heard, was a ranch-owner. From
there we went to a place called Santa
Ana, near San Borja.
"On leaving there the command was
split in two, one section going east,
under command of Nicholas Hernan
dez, we turning back to the south
west, through the mountains. This
was done with a great deal of secre
cy. In fact, I did not go with the
Villa group, but when I got into
camp late that night, at a place called
I Rancho Colorado, Villa was were.
! They very often took him out of his
j litter and they always hid him at
j night. They always brought him out
in the morning from entirely different
I place from that where he was appar
i ently hidden at night. I deserted one
J night and went away in the darkness,
: accompanied by a boy, and we walked
j all the way back to El Valle through
j the mountains." Literary Digest.
j Coffin's Contribution.
' During the late National Prohini-
tion convention in St. Paul, Minn.,
i which nominated ex-Gov. J. Fiank
Hanley of Indianapolis for president,
a newspaper dispatch stated that "a
I little old man from Johnstown, Flori
! da, is the hero of the convention."
j Continuing the dispatch says:
I This little, old man sat pretty far
back in the convention today and
: talked to his gray-haired, motherly
looking little wife, who shared the
honors.
They were John P. Coffin and wlfs,
who own 12,000 acres of land in
Florida, but act and look just like
the rest of the "home folks who are
attending the convention.
This was all they did:
The prohibitionists need money to
run a campaign. The chairman had
called for contributions, and they were
coming in slowly. A voice baci: in
the hall said something about
000.
"What's that," the crowd shouted.
Coffin's gray head popped up from
the Florida delegation.
"Yes, that's what I said." he said.
"Put me down for $50,000."
The convention cheered and dele
gates toppled over their chairs to srot
to Coffin. They picked him up and
carried him to the platform. ?I:-s.
Coffin looked embarrassed, but they
picked her up, too, and carried her
up there with him.
Coffin's contribution is believed the
largest ever made for a prohibit inn
campaign. His pledge started the
ball rolling and funds rolled in after
that.
The collection was just like one of
those donation parties they have for
country ministers.
Those who didn't have money gave
other things. One man tossed kuo
the pot a mortgage for 5158.08
some Illinois law books and told 'l.o
collectors to get after the money.
Out of a mass of resolutions pl iee,!
before the convention, the resolut :!'.
committee had fairly well worked ' ut
its platform. The Susan Anthony
soffrage amendment, an eight hour
'i.'.y for workingmen, a program of
pi eparedness for peace only, ar.d gov-ernrr-ent
ownership of armor plates
were the principal clauses decided
upon and, of course, national prohi
1 if ton.
For a Sprained Ankle.
If you will get a bottle of Chamber
lain's Liniment and observe the direc
tions given therewith faithfully, you
will creover in much less time than is
usually required. Obtainable every
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FLORIDA IS COOLER
Than the Nor; h A Hot Sec
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If Yon Need Your Business
and Your Business
is Worth Anything at All -It
IS Worth Advertising.
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TO ADVERTISE a business is not a profitable investment
uniess carefully looked after. Good advertising will be to
your business what fertilizer is to plant life; properly cared
for it will help your business to take good root and blossom into
one of the really progressive enterprises in its community.
To advertise is to tell the people what you have to sell,
and good, judicial advertising will sell anything; it creates a
demand for the article or articles.
There are different mediums through which one may reach
the buying public ie. Hand Bills, Circulars, Bill Board, Moving
Picture Screen, etc., but the surest and best medium is the LOCAL
NEWSPAPER.
THE PALATKA NEWS goes to the cream of the buying
public THROUGH THE MAIL, and is read by thousands through
out the city and county every week. Think this over
Orlando Reporter-Star: Clark
Robertson, sanitary commissioner, has
returned from an extxended trip.
His travels took him to Cincinnati,
Toledo, Detroit, Lansing and several
other large cities.
"Never," said Jlr. Robertson, "was
I so glad to get back home. I nev
er realized what a mistake it was for
us Orlandoites to go north in the
summer time to try and get cool.
Why, I nearly suffered sunstroke
when I was in Lansing, and I car,
stand some heat. When the ther
mometer registered at 105 there it is
hotter than it would be here at 125.
it is the humidity which makes the
heat so oppressive. The clouds of
smoke hang above the city in tiers;
there does not seem to be a breath of
air to stir them.
"As to business conditions, they
look very promising. Everywhere
there is a cry for laborers. In the
machinist line this demand is stron
ger than in any other. Tho war has
taken thousands of skilled mechanics
and skilled mechanics are now draw
ing from 4 to 0 dollars a day.
"The crops are wonderful, I never
-;".' m hi-;ivicr one."
j While in Toledo, Mr. Robertson
I called upon Mr. ('has. Tiedtke, who
r!s his wintei's in Orlando. He
insisted on the Orlando commission
er spending the day and showed him
about the city. Mr. Tiedtke's de
,ai tmer.t store was one of the won
ders of the visit for Mr. Robertson.
The building r vers a space of ?:
about the size of an Orlando city
block. Mr. Robertson says he has
been through Seigle-Coopor's, Vv ana
maker's and a number of department
.tores, but Tiedtke's is so different
In. in them that the only way he can
express it, is that it is unique and
pel feet in every detail.
"1 talked Florida from the time I
left until I returned. I am glad to
:;y thai I found a number of people
v.-iio ,'uU that they were going i
spend the winter in Florida, and each
one of them got an Orlando booklet."
Cleanliness and Disease .
L'e clean if you would be healthy!
This is one of the commandments
cf the Gospel of the modern sanita
rian. It is the basic foundation on
which rest all the laws and rules un
der which the up-to-date physician
makes bis fight for the physical wal
fare of his patients. It is the most
often repeated and the most empha
sized of the orders that he issues to
his clients, for he knows that recov
ery from disease and from wound
and the preservation of normal health
conditions are next to impossible in
the presence of unclenliness.
In the fight against infantile par-aiy.-is,
which is occupying the most
strenuous attention of the medical
piol'ession in the United States, this
law has assumed a new and added
significance. Admittedly the disease
is still very much of a mystery, in
its origin, its progress and methods
of development and as to the most
effective treatment, but from their
observation, the medical men of the
country agree that its virulence is
greater in the midst of unhygienic
surround'ngs than under those where
care is taken to create and preserve
the proper conditions of clean living.
In this respect the disease follows
exactly in line of all afflictions that
are known, to be of germ origin, in
deed, of all physical derangements to
which humans are the legitimate
heirs.
There is no better preventative !
against disease than proper hygiene,
none more essential, and the temper
atures of summer, whether in tho
North or the South, call for cxtraor- !
dinariy precautions in this direction.
The reason is that putrefaction and j
decay are more rapid, as is all chemi- '
cal reaction, under heat than under :
tho lower temperatures of the cooler '
season. The breeding of flies and '
mosquitoes, the carriers of disease
producing germs, is favored by sum
mer heat, whether it be in Florida or
in Maine.
It is only natural that under tho ,
stress of emergency particular atten
tion should be given to cleaning up
the premises, to the prompt and reg- (
ular removal of garbage and refuse,
but here's something to remember.
The influence of unclean physical sur
roundings, like that of moral unelean
ness, is not immediately cut off ln
sudden reformation. It remains for
a time to produce evil results in
spite of improved surroundings. Our
bodies, like our souls, must be rid of
the poison of evil before they can ab
sorb the full value of healthful sur
roundings. It follows that we should always
be in a state of preparedness against
disease of whatever nature, mainly
by the preservation of normal hygi
enic conditions, by habit oi rvAi
eating, bathing and clothing adapted
to the personal occupation, bv plen
ty of sleep and by indulgence in no !
form of excess. Persons who ac-
quire and follow habit of regular nor- 1
mal living, unpimctuated by even oc
casional riots of excess, " are best ;
armed against disease, even though
they be surrounded by unhygienic
condition?, but even such are subicc
to the poison of dirt, and no one '
reasonably safe unless he is armed bv
personal cleanliness and by uncon- ,
tammated surrounding. ' I
In the conditions that have a poi
ble menace for 'Florida during the
present summer, the matter of prop. '
er personal hygiene and hvgieni? dr- '
ZT1?, of tJ? utmost Z.
Illiteracy in Florida,
The term "illiterate" includes all
j persons ten years of age or over un
jable to write their own language,
j the majority of them being also un
1 able to write.
I There is a great discrepancy be
tween the number of illiterates in our
i cities and the country districts,
i In the United States as a whole
I the white children of natives are more
illiterate than the native Dorn enn- As t .. .
dren of foreign parentage, due, ot ! , --wiis matte,.
1 course, to the fact that the most 01 - we must once
i our foreigners are in the cities. The . plead that if we cannot all bp
piuuiuuii "i-v : Mil ui us De as -n
. five born children of foreign paren-
tage is only about 9 per 1,000. ,.
! The proportion of illiterates in this 111 8 Parer was just as ffich
State are approximately as follows: posed to an election contest i
, (The figures given represent only courte as anyone could be-tw
! white population, females being ' on the grounds of reason an?
.i:.un,. ,,. lllltoi.nto than mnfoa OI DUbllC nolicv o,l r"u
ami tne proportion 01 iiegiu iuilci- ( .v.oUiiuiK person can dpmr .J
1 tin-IPs prnater than njmt of anv intorpoi v '1
iucj uv-nift - - o i . . """
the fi cures here quoted.)
At least 10 years of age
1,000 are illiterate.
83
cw.j, juu.-1-esxeu person ,A J
soever to appeal to th r.,'Zn ?H
per matter whatever if they will hea Q
But could anv nnoi,i. ... . lul
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I 11 to 14 years of age 84 per 1,000 election contests; be likely tn
"umber
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i onlTt H 1 v-i n- 1.1,,. iL 1
i; on , f no-o ?7 tier 1 000 that the wild nnrl L w. c
!ii;f,.f i marks of snmp nf . "lns
oi j.- .) c ai nor. 1 nnft tn hnvp? Uotq are su:
i iu ,i--tiis vl 1.1 f, jji j - . t - nit; constant
are illiterate. iLuiduon uy some ot thwn that k
1 flfin seeks tn h ni'O the r.,...t .
are illiterate. : the verdict of the people
u) LU Ml t,ttW3 v-l. Hfo J" i ..w..,,8 ut Ult! Kind
are illiterate. ! courts woum do notliino J i
l.'!....:.l 1. IBfVi in tnn'lrind. Pni' iiicf.,,, ,' .t
r iui ma nujin uumi win n. x .iimin.c, une i ai v no.,.
fttates ill regain 10 niueiucy unions , ii("--i mum ui h: a daily newsnir
more illiterate than the btate witn e asKs tne courts to MAKE hi
l lie iov.es nerceiiiiige. ulcF"j numiiite. i.ut tne permit
T., T..,.l-snn-;ilp ttip lllitprntps Florida will nnt ntnnt ., .... , 1
among ine wnue cnmueji num iv tu hi-i-, nu uuluu ne run in np v
14 years 01 age is UDOUt per i,wv, i uieciiun lie wili lie the W(
the gi'oater illiteracy in the coun- i defeated man that ever ran f01. oft
trv dees r.ot necessarily indicate that in the State."
the regard for education is less there surely, it the editor of this ,M
. ., , .jj iL. 1 . , . LiliS UikJ
taan m the citv. wne cause or uie new spacer nas not none i,ii"hniK
(in; .'rence is tne uuncuuy ui jjiuviu- ; must, n.uuv nu is misrc pi e-entip'' tl
ing school facilities for a scattered j character and motives .f luith Kr.J
j' nation. 1 anu our courts, uq mu-t kno
Tiie development of the school j courts would not "MAKE" eif-n'.n.'-portation
system, already inau- j Knott or Catts the mmi?:ee anv "
gurated in many country communi-1 than they might any of the oti
ties, will tend to remove tins clisad- tnree candidates. they would d
vantage. Another circumstance also rly order a recount, to' the sole "a
(r-cratm? to the disadvantage oi tne , tnat mere oe no mistake ai.out ul,
country population is tneir smaller; tne "venlict ot the people really
per capita local appropriation for j That is all.
v , .. i:.i.i i. i .
senoo: purposes. j -uisiaises not to say frauds-
Realizing that a certain amount of j cur in other things why nnt in eie
public instruction is indispensable for ! t ions ? Counting son:e o.fHJO la
the general good ot the Mate, legis- lots hy some several thousands
latures ot many states have imposed i election clerks is some ,ib, and mil
s Mate school tax. taKes not to say f rands are
This system, bv which the wealthier ; unlikely. A recount niHit inm.-i
the Catts vote and dei
vote nobody knows,
courts do not, nor will
the various recount
"verdict" they shall ":i
count by order of tl,.- i
newspapers should n
wicked lsunuations a:
St. Petersburg Times.
i school districts are made to assist
;the poorer, will naturally tend to les
sen the difference between the city
and country in the matter of illiter
acy. ; Manv parts of our State have taken
advantage ot the Law passed ty tne ; ly mean a legal mve-:
last legislature, and have voted for j what "verdict" the pen
compulsory school attendance. It is i render, and intelligent
up to us to not be the last.
Petitions are in the hands of per
sons in various parts of this, the First
School Hoard District, (East of the
St. Johns River, and including Fruit
land Peninsula), and the voters are
asked to sign them, if they see fit,
in order that the persons in whose
hands they are may send them back
to the writer for presentation to the
County Board of Public Instructian.
On the petitions already returned '
there are enough signatures to cal! I
the election, as provided by law, but
let us make it as unanimous a? pos
sible. By many this law is not understood.
A parent is not compelled to send a
child to a county school, but that
child may have a tutor, attend a pri
vate or parochial school, just so that
th? training is satisfactory to the
School Hoard.
In the event that any sub-district
within this School Board Oistri-t
voir against the compulsory attend
ance law, that sub-district is exempt
firm its provisions, even though ev
ery other sub-district if the lioard
li;st"k't votes for it.
Will those who yet have petitions
in ihoir possession make an effort to
got them fully signed up and re nun
'lien to mo?
D. C. MAIX, M'. 1).
Welaka. Fla., Aug. 1st, 1910.
se the Kr,o
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they instrui
fticwls vl:
:d." A r
mi t can oi
i'.'a tion as
ile really !
i rd rcasor.it
i". from sin
the above.-
Luiiif. .inn m nt.noM.: ,
tw.- 1, - a,a ttle health
thorities in their figh ' ae ain lZ
sion by infantile paralysis -Ut,M
Board of Health BulleUn t2
One on Billy Sunday.
Billy Sunday, while in Baltini"ru
recently, asked a newsboy the way
to the postoffice. The boy told him.
After that he patted the boy on the
head, and said: "My young man, do
you know who I am?" "No, sir."
"I'm Billy Sunday; come up to my
tabernacle some time and I'll show
you the way to heaven." "What're
trying to do, kid me?" asked the ur
chin. "Why, you don't even know the
way to the postoffice."
The Children's Army.
Xo tunc of tooting fife,
Xo heat of the rolling drum,
And yet with the thrill of life
The hordes of children come.
Freckled and chubby and lean,
Indifferent, good and bad,
Bedraggled and dirty and clean,
Richly and poorly "clad,
They come on toddling feet
To the schoolhouse door ahead;
The neighboring alley and street
Resound to the infant tread.
Children of those who came
To the land of the promising West,
Foreign of face and name,
Are shoulder to shoulder pressed
With the youth of the native land
In the quest for truth and light,
-As the valorous little band
Trudges to left and right.
Creed and color and race
Unite from the ends of the earth,
Blending each noble trace
In the pride of a glorious birth,
Race and hate and tht, past
Fuse, in a melting heat
As the little hearts beat fast
To the stir of a common beat,
A fresher bawn and brain
For the stock which the fates de
stroy Belong to the cosmic strain
Of American girl and boy.
Elias Lieberman in the New York
Sun.
The Clerk Guaranteed It.
A customer came ;r.to my stca
the other day and said to one of raj
clerks, "have you arr-thiae that wl
cure diarrhoea?'' ai-.l my clerk wl
and got him a ! .r.i- of Chambei
Iain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea
Remedy, and said to him. 'if tht
not cure you, I will m-i cnurge yi
a cent for it' So he took it hoir
and came back in a day or two a:
said he was cured," writes J. II. Be
rv & Co.. Salt Creek. Va. Obtainasl
everywhere.
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Burns, Ok! Sotc -..
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